Dr. Sridevi Hedge
Consultant – Medical Genetics
General Medicine
Manipal Hospital, Hal Airport Road,Banglalore - Bangalore, India
Qualification
MBBS DCH PhD (Genetics)Languages
English Kannada Hindi Tamil TeluguWork Experience
37 YearsAwards & Achivements
Setup Department of Medical GeneticsManipal Hospital
Bangalore in 1998.
Set up M.Sc. in Human Genetics in September 1998 in Sri Ramchandra Medical College (Porur
Chennai) - Board of studies member
Senate member and visiting faculty.
Set up a “ Walk Through – Genetic Science” at Visvesvaraya Museum
Bangalore in 2000
Started Certificate course in Genetic Counseling in 2014 at Manipal Hospital
Bangalore
Ph.D. Guide for Sri Rajiv Gandhi University of Medical Sciences (Karnataka) and MAHE University (Manipal).
Invited as the PI in New Millennium Indian Leadership Technology Initiative (NMITLI Project) & the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Part of the first ICMR screening project for cases of intellectual disability caused by chromosome/metabolic abnormalities and IEM
Awarded a centre of excellence for glioma research in Indian Institute of Science on successful completion of the glioma project
DBT.
10 years of ICMR multicentric research projects from 1982- 1992.
Memberships
• IAP: Indian Academy Of Pediatrics• SIAMG: Society of Indian Academy Medical Genetics
• Joint secretary – Bangalore association of Pediatrics
• Executive committee member
• Society for fetal medicine and genetics
• Perinatology committee (FOGSY)
• Indian society of prenatal diagnosis and therapy
• Life member – Bangalore pediatric society
• Member – Indian society of human genetics
• Member – genetic chapter – Indian academy of pediatrics.
• Life member – Indian association for cancer research.
• Member for the Planning & Program Committee for designing the Biotechnology Gallery at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum
Bangalore.
Area of Interest
• Over 35 years of extensive experience in the field of Medical GeneticsCytogenetics
Dysmorphology
Pre-natal Diagnosis
Molecular Genetics & Genetic counselling.
• Underwent advanced training under DAAD fellowship at the Institute of Human Genetics